TELEGRAPHIC HEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1396, 6 August 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC HEWS.

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. LBBCTBB’Ii BPBUIAL TBLKGBAMSJ TO TOB PRESS AGBNCY,] London, August 3. There was a great ceremonial in presenting the freedom of the city to the Premier. He said he yielded to none in his devotion to his country. Lord Salisbury hoped the peace would last many years. A banquet followed. In the House of Commons, Messrs Forster, Lefevre, and Harcourt attacked the Governmerit in the vote of censure debate. Lord Elcho, Messrs Roebuck, Butt, and Sir S, Northcote defended the policy. Money is very scarce, and rates are rising. The Bank advanced its rate J per cent. Consols receded f per cent. The market for Australian securities suffered through sympathy with other descriptions of stock. Wool is quiet. Current rates firm. Corn is quiet. The prospects of the wheat harvest at home are favorable. August 4. The first innings of the Rochdale Eighteen closed for 124. The second innings of the Australians for 72. In the Rochdale second innings six are out for 50. The match resulted in a draw. There was heavy rain during the match, NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] New Plymouth, August 5. The “ Herald ” authoritatively contradicts the rumor which has appeared in Wellington papers relative to Sir J. Coode’s report against the feasibility of constructing a harbor at New Plymouth. Wellington, August 5. At the Municipal Conference the question of loans was discussed and referred to the committee for a further report. It was agreed that it is not advisable to increase the rate of interest at which municipalities can borrow to 8 per cent. A clause was introduced compelling local bodies adjacent to cities to put in force the Public Health Act. It was resolved that all fines and penalties under the Dog Nuisance, Publicans, Pawnbrokers, Waterworks and Drainage Acts, or under any by-law, should he paid to boroughs It was resolved that it is desirable as reclamation adj -cent to boroughs extends, that municipal boundaries should follow. The subject of charitable aid will be discussed to-raorrow. Akauba, Augusts, There has beeu a heavy fall of snow. All communication with Reefton and here bus been stopped for the past four days. It is still snowing heavily. Hokitika, August 5. James Cox, who attempted to poison the barmaid, Sarah Jacobs, was committed for trial to the Supreme Court. The evidence showed that he purchased strychnine from a chemist a few days previous. Poison was found in both a tumbler and a glass out of which the girl and he drank. A letter was also produced, written by Cox to the girl’s brother, saying —“ The sin of this will full on your own hands, and bring your poor father’s grey hairs to the grave; but when - you get this it will be too late for me and Sarah.” Evidence went to show that he meant to poison the girl and commit suiVde. The weither of late has been frightful, snow, hail, rain, and wind alternately for many days. The Christchurch coach due on Saturday has not arrived. The advocates for the Southern line of railway are getting up a petition to the Legislature. Many favor the more direct route with the East Coast. Dunedin, August 5, Snow fell heavily last night and to-day, and the ground in and about Dunedin is covered to a depth of several indies. It caused an interruption of traffic on the Milton and Lawrence lines. Messrs Macandrow and Stout have telegraphed to the Mayor that the question of the railway station site will be considered this week by the Government. A storeman, in the employ of Wright, St> phenson and Co., was much injured today, in consequence of a fall from a ladder while being pelted with snowballs, Lawrence, August 5. The snowstorm here was such ss was never before known. The Blue Spur claims all knocked off work. The morning train for Dunedin was stuck in a 10ft. snowdrift at Roundhill tunnel. Traffic was suspended. Balclutha, August 5, The coach could not face the storm to-day, and therefore did not go. The Clinton passengers from Dunedin per train had therefore to stop here. The storm and snow are still increasing. [FROM THE CORRESPONDENTS OF THE PRESS] Wellington, August 5. A meeting of those interested in football matters is to bo held at the Star Hotel at 8 p.m , to take steps to provide funds, &c., for sending a representative Wellington team round the South Island. It is possible that a certain proportion of Wanganui men will be included in the team. Dunedin, August 5, T. Nicholson, chief clerk in the Goods Department of Dunedin railway, has been transferred to Christchurch, A resolution was passed by the standing committee to forward to Bishop Neville various letters received from parishes, as to payment of assessments imposed on them by the Diocesan Synod, and to request his Lordship not to send out any more clergymen, as diocoso cannot support, them. The “ Daily Times ” thinks this is a step which every member of the Church of England here should view with regret and shame. Here is a church that is supposed to soptain the

creme de la creme of Ihe community in point of social standing, education, and wealth, and jet it allows its country clergy to starve on miserable and uncertain pittances, and brents faith with its chief pastor in a manner which, if the church in its corporate capacity can he regarded as an individual, involves a question of simple honesty or dishonesty. What is really required is a fund of £3OOO or £SOOO, the interest of which would pay all diocesan expenses and leave something each year for poorer parishes, and annual subscriptions to the amount, of £SOO or so would do the rest. If there were any real earnestness of purpose among members of the church this fund could he raised in three months.

Traffic on the Winton*Kingston Railway was partial during the past week and is now entirely suspended. In many places the snow lay to a depth of 4ft. The down train from Kingston on Wednesday ran into a snowdrift in the vicinity of Parrawa and could neither advance nor retreat. It was a clear case of sticking up. The train remained in this position all night, and next day was dug out by a gang of men taken up the line for the purpose. It is impossible to say when the line to Kingston will again be opened for traffic. Certainly not until the snow melts. Not since 1863, the year of great floods in the lake country, has such weather been experienced. A Queenstown telegram in the “ Star” to-night says the whole country is covered with snow, varying from Gin. to 6ft. in depth. This, combined with the severe winter, will inflict the greatest, blow on stockowners in the district they have ever received. Great anxiety is experienced by them. From Invercargill an engine and tender, by the aid of a large number of laborers, managed to reach Kingston on Saturday evening with the Dunedin Wednesday mails. At Lawrence on Thursday a child named McNeil, scarcely a year old, fell during its mother’s absence off a chair on which it was sitting into the fire, and received severe injuries, causing its death to-day. At Waikouaiti Robert Price, aged seventy, one of the earliest settlers in the district, died while talking with his family. Timaru, August 5.

A heavy southerly gale swept over Timaru, and the back district this morning, and a groat deal of snow has fallen on the downs. Thcweather is bitterly cold, the thermometer this morning standing at 20.